Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation – SMBC Group

Vice President, AI/GenAI Staff Engineer

Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation – SMBC Group

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Charlotte • North Carolina • 🇺🇸 United States

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Job Level

Lead

Tech Stack

AzureCloudPythonPyTorchTensorflow

About the role

  • As a Staff AI/GenAI Engineer in the Platform Engineering team, you will play a pivotal role in designing, developing, and deploying AI platforms and solutions that drive business value.
  • You will work closely with stakeholders in architecture, technology, data and business organizations.
  • You will partner with Azure, Databricks, and other infrastructure providers to build and operate the AI/GenAI platform, ensuring robust, scalable, and secure architecture.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Data Science, or related field.
  • 5+ years of hands-on experience in developing, deploying, and maintaining GenAI or advanced ML models in production environments.
  • 3+ years of experience in Python and GenAI frameworks/tools e.g. Databricks Vector Search, Azure AI Search, Azure AI document intelligence, LangGraph, haystack, Llama Index etc.
  • Advanced knowledge of prompt engineering, model fine-tuning, embedding models, and effective RAG implementation methodologies, including vector databases, chunking strategies, GraphRAG etc.
  • Deep familiarity with MLOps/LLMOps tools (e.g. MLflow), data platforms (e.g. Databricks) and cloud platforms.
  • Demonstrated experience developing and deploying RESTful services, containerization, and automated CI/CD systems.
  • Working knowledge of ML libraries e.g. PyTorch, TensorFlow, Hugging Face Transformers.
  • Excellent communication and collaboration skills; proven ability to influence and partner with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Benefits
  • SMBC’s employees participate in a Hybrid workforce model that provides employees with an opportunity to work from home, as well as, from an SMBC office.
  • SMBC provides reasonable accommodations during candidacy for applicants with disabilities consistent with applicable federal, state, and local law.
  • Prospective candidates will learn more about their specific hybrid work schedule during their interview process.

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard skills
GenAIMachine LearningPythonprompt engineeringmodel fine-tuningembedding modelsRAG implementationRESTful servicescontainerizationCI/CD
Soft skills
communicationcollaborationinfluencepartnering
Certifications
Bachelor’s degree in Computer ScienceBachelor’s degree in Machine LearningBachelor’s degree in Data Science